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and mud, — how did they come to be what they are ? If your 

 curiosity is roused about anything, try to express it in the form 

 of a question. What is it that you really want to know ? The 

 effort to solve a question that has been put into distinct words 

 is seldom thrown away. The very statement of the question 

 reveals whether it is worth answering or not. 



I wish good luck to the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union ! 

 The very best thing that it could possibly do, or help to do, 

 would be to humanise Natural History. 



